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As a newbie to this forum, I'm still in the process of taking in the immensity of the set of views and counterpoints demonstrated by this community -- you guys have completely convinced me that there are still people out there asking all the right questions. There really is hope for the spiritual absolution of our species.

As a former physicist driven to disillusionment by the narrow-minded fornications of old school academia, it has come as an awakening for me that I can now venture my cogitations for consideration, without feeling as though the guillotine of scientific reprobation is about to seamlessly slice through my neck.

I'm personally quite enchanted by the 10-dimension theory, particularly it sounds so elegant, but also because addresses timelessness, mindlessness and higher consciousness so effortlessly. Of course, it should all be crystal clear and make perfect sense -- and yet, the fog of uncertainty ceases to relent.

We have thus far established the holographic nature of the universe, but there has been no mention of its fractal behaviour. As far as we know, the universe is both a fractal and a hologram, differentiated by either self-similarity or self-identity respectively. But this distinction leads to an interesting quandary: if geometrical objects like the Koch snowflake, coastlines or fractal broccoli are real and have fractional dimensions, then couldn't we conceive of beings existing in d=0.618? Of course, their paths would be folded through d=1.618 (Phi), and they will destined to be forever wandering aimlessly along the Golden Spiral.

The trouble with Rob's 10-dimensional exposition is largely in that considering that all possibilities are contained within the 'Infinity' as pertaining to your seventh dimension, there are possibilities of worlds contained within any dimension, be it integer, fractional, negative or imaginary. Which brings me to my basic premise:

REALITY IS PERCEPTION, BUT IMAGINATION IS OUR REALITY

If we can mathematically, visually, even abstractly visualise or conceive of alternative realities (be it in different planes, futures or manifolds), then they EXIST. Even if that commonplace chemically jumbled up construction that exists in 4-D (the brain) is consciously or otherwise generating a possibility, then that eventuality has occurred. The concept of 'thoughtspace' isn't new -- it is as real as 'probability space' and is clearly the medium through which memes propagate through mutation and self-replication. In that case, it doesn't matter in what dimension you exist; what is really relevant here is that you, like that fractal and hologram, are a part of that unified wholeness of being, a cosmic consciousness, and that the whole universe (or multiple universes) is embedded and enfolded within you. It is an awe-inspiring and terrifying thought.

An aside on post-mortality and the eternal nature of the soul -- death states have often been likened to dreamlike existence. People calling themselves 'Oneironauts', who practice the art of lucid dreaming, echo shamans when they say that the soul continues to exist in a timeless state. If timelessness is the cloth that embroiders our veil of past, present & future, then please wrap me up in it.


Hope to contribute more soon!

Sk.
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